Monday, February 6, 2012

Mouse Eye

From LiveScience:

Rainbow RetinaCredit: Bryan William Jones, The University of Utah, Moran Eye Center
The winners of the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, announced this week (Feb. 2) turn dry data into vivid imagery.

This rainbow retina took home first prize; the computational molecular phenotype image of a mouse's eye reveals the diversity of cell metabolism in the retina. The optic nerve is in the upper right of the image. The rectus muscles can be seen in red and gold, attached to the green sclera (the white part of the eye). Retinal layers appear in a rainbow of colors from light gold to pink and purple, while other cells show up in blue and green. [Read full story]

No comments:

Post a Comment